Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Vicente Fox
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda Gutman
Communications Secretary (SCT): Pedro Cerisola
Education Secretary (SEP): Reyes Tamez
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gerardo Clemente Vega
Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Marco Antonio Peyrot González
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Carlos María Abascal Carranza
Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Leticia Navarro
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Víctor Lichtinger
Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Genaro David Góngora Pimentel
Governors
Aguascalientes: Felipe González González
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther
Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño, Campeche: José Antonio González Curi Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel Michoacán Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubí (date not available) Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (date not available) Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez . Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond Oaxaca: José Murat Casab Puebla: Melquíades Morales Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán Sonora: Armando López Nogales Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz , starting January 1 Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal
Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Events
January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners
February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place. March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon. September 20 – Hurricane Isidore (category 3) reaches the Yucatán Peninsula October 25 – Hurricane Kenna (category 5) reaches Puerto Vallarta October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Héctor Fix Zamudio
Order of the Aztec Eagle
National Prize for Arts and Sciences
National Public Administration Prize
Ohtli Award
Rosa Ramirez Guerrero
Richard Joel Noriega
Popular culture
March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother
May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City
June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins. July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.
Sports
Primera División de México Verano 2002
Primera División de México Apertura 2002
Music
Film
Documentaries
Gabriel Orozco
Niños de la calle
Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados
Acosada (De piel de víbora)
Fiction
Amar te duele
Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
Dark Cites (Ciudades oscuras) El crimen del padre Amaro eXXXorcismos Francisca (... De qué lado estás?) El gavilán de la sierra La habitación azul Seres humanos El tigre de Santa Julia Una de dos La virgen de la lujuria
Literature
TV
Notable deaths
January 3 – Juan García Esquivel (84), musician
February 10 – Ramón Arellano Félix (37), drug lord
April 8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican actress (b. April 8, 1914) October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931) October 19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (100), photographer November 6 – Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (80), politician November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena December 2 – Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca (b. 1926).